Shame and Setback for India movable industry

Euro news channel last evening had news that left me scandalously gobsmacked. The channel reported that an Indian community has banned unmarried women from using movable phones for fear they will dispose forbidden marriages that are often punished by death. My first demand was how on earth this can happen? For heaven sake we are in 21st century. According to the news channel the lank community council decided unmarried boys could use movable phones, but only under parental guidance and feared women would use phones to dispose forbidden marriages. Only an neo-colonial mentality man can fail to hold local women's possession group commentary of the quantum as backward and unfair.

I have all along known that marriages in the middle of members of the same clan are forbidden under Hindu practice in some parts of northern India. In that part of the country unions are traditionally arranged by families. In conservative rural areas, families sometimes mete out greatest punishments, together with "honour killings", for those who violate marriage taboos. In some cases, community councils themselves have ordered the punishments, though police often intervene to stop them. Reports also indicated that lank community council feared young men and women were confidentially calling one an additional one to dispose to elope.

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The movable phone ban for unmarried women is part of a wider, regional effort to curb intra-clan marriage among the 3 million people of western Uttar Pradesh. The Lank council archaic ruling, which applies to nearby 50, 000 people, is being carefully by councils in nearby villages. community council members feel that cell phones helped in the elopement of young couples. Most marriages in the region are still arranged by the parents, sometimes without the merge meeting before the wedding. But young people are mingling more, with more women in schools and offices and increased way to the internet.

Mobile phones, meanwhile, have become so base and affordable that even city slum dwellers, rural day labourers and children have them. Across the nation of 1. 2 billion people, there were more than 670m movable phone connections as of August, with the whole growing by nearly 20m a month, According to government figures. The local women's possession group, Disha, said the ban demonstrated the councils' archaic mindset, and warned that it could put girls at a disadvantage in other areas of life. In October 2010 alone, Euro news reported that 34 couples eloped in Muzaffarnagar district, where Lank is located, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Among the couples who did so, eight "honour killings" have been reported in the past month while three girls were beheaded by the male members of their house after they eloped.

Rulings by panchayats and comprising community elders superior by the community are not legally binding in India but are seen as the will of the local community, and those who flout them risk being ostracised. In Uttar Pradesh, panchayats are particularly superior and have declared that boys and girls of the same clan are essentially siblings. movable Phones have played a vast role in helping ease communication among people and one cannot discriminate in the use of these contraptions on the basis of sex. If effected this could be a national shame to all movable industry players together with my friend Kashish Kumar Paryani based in Indore. I vehemently oppose this move.

Shame and Setback for India movable industry

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